Seat attachment for bicycles



110.450,?12. Patented Apr. 21, 1891.

Inventor.

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Witnesses.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK VOSS, OF BUFFALO, NEIV YORK.

SEAT ATTACHM ENT FOR BICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,712, dated April 21, 1891.

Application filed August 15, 1890. Serial No. 362,068. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK V 05s, a citizen of the United States, residing in Butfalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in certain improvements in childrens chairs adapted to be attached to the front of a bicycle, and will be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bicycle, showing myimproved chair attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the chair, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the same.

The frame of the chair is preferably made of heavy iron wire, but may be constructed of any suitable material. It consists of the two side portions 1, each side portion being provided with a hook portion 2 at the top, the hooks 2 being made to bend backward and downward, adapting them to catch over and hang on the guide-rod 3 of a bicycle. (See Fig. 1.) The hook ends 2 are formed somewhat in the shape of a ring l, (better shown. in Fig. 4,) through which a strap (or a piece of strong cord) maybe passed and fastened by winding it around the guide-rod 3 and then tying the twine or cord in any wellknown way, so as to secure the hooks rigidly in place to the guide-rod 3; or the hooks may be secured by means of a strap passed through them and wound around the guiderod and fastened in the usual way by the buckle. At the front of the side pieces 1 is a curved arm-piece 4r on each side of the chair, and below it is the bottom frame-piece 5, by which the upholstered bottom 6 is secured, and 7 represents the parts to which the upholstered back 8 is secured. Below the bottom pieces 5 are bars 9, (secured by braces 9%) to which the platform 10 (shown in Fig. 1) is secured, so as to form a foot-step upon which the child can set its feet. It also acts as a guard to protect the feet from the wheel below them, (wheel 11.) At the lower part of both sides of the chain are two downwardly-projecting parallel rods 12 and 13, having at the bottom a surrounding clamping-piece 1i rigidly secured thereto.

Between the rods 12 and 13 at each side of the chair are two bars 15 and 16, having a surrounding holding-piece 17, to which their top ends are rigidly secured. These holding-pieces also surround the bars 12 and 13 and fit them so as to be moved easily up or down thereon, substantially as shown in Fig. 2 by the dotted lines B, and when adjusted to any point desired theyare fastened by means of a set-screw 18 in the clampingpiece 14, which clamps the bars 15 and 1G and secures them rigidly at the point desired. The bars 15 and 16 are preferably formed of one piece of heavy wire and are formed with a curved hollow foot 19, the hollow portion 20 being adapted to set down over the well-known foot-rest pins or bars 21 of a bicycle, (see Fig. 1,) of which there are one on each side of the bicycle-fork, and thereby hold or keep the chair rigidly in place. It will be seen from this construction that the two legs of the chair and the footpieces may be sprung apart, so as to [it over and straddle and hug close to the bicyclefork, and when the chair is fastened by the foot-pieces at the bottom and by the hooks at the top, as described, it is held firmly in position.

I claim as my invention In a childs bicycle-chair, the combination of the hook portions 2 at the upper part of the chair, two side portions adapted to straddle the bicycle-fork, and two extensible legs made adjustable by means of a set-screw, each leg beingprovided with an inverted hollow foot-piece adapted to fit and rest on the footrest of a bicycle, whereby the chair may be used for bicycles of various sizes, substantially as described.

FREDERICK VOSS.

Witnesses:

JAMEs SANGSTER, WILLIAM SOHULTZE. 

